ByteDance Reportedly Negotiates Iluvatar CoreX AI Chip Purchase

Reuters reports ByteDance is in talks to buy at least 50,000 AI chips from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX, primarily for inference workloads powering its Doubao chatbot. If the deal is completed, it would make Iluvatar CoreX ByteDance's third major domestic GPU supplier after Huawei and Cambricon. It is said that ByteDance is also considering a similar deal with Baidu. Deal details remain subject to change and none of the companies commented.